[#3Fan]

Butler: "I then issued my General Order No 1, in which I made it plain that there were several thousand secessionists in New York. They were there in such numbers as to impede the Union men getting lodgings and boarding-house accommodations, the landlords saying that they could let all the room they had to Southerners at their own prices. I took care that the Southerners should understand that means would be taken for their identification, and that whoever of them should vote would be dealt with in such a manner as to make them uncomfortable. That was sufficient, and substantially no Southerners [secessionists] voted at the polls on election day." Well gee, that was fair.

Being from Illinois, I vote in Illinois. If a Southerner was voting in New York, then he would've been doing so illegally. Have you no common sense?

[4CJ]

Being from Illinois, I vote in Illinois. If a Southerner was voting in New York, then he would've been doing so illegally. Have you no common sense?

Mikey, in this case "Southerner" is euphamism for McClellan voter. Copperhead would have worked as well.